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God what is up with that mad cow Mika Brzezinsky? More importantly, why are “Morning Joe” and MSNBC letting her be the person to moderate the panel on how the GOP blocked the Paycheck Fairness Act? Did they not notice that she is herself an un-man, and therefore must totally smear her period blood all over men’s right to earn and keep all the money, because otherwise “lawyers” and “government”?

Anyway, get a load of the lone chick on the entire show (we’re not sure why they let on even one of ’em, since punditing obviously requires physical as well as logical strength) stone cold proving that broads are too emotional and hysterical and possessed of ovaries and fallopes to be able to think clearly about things like … well, whatever they are talking about. Someone in Congress did a thing, right? We don’t know, we heard there was a new Manolo Blahnik somewhere.

Mika, you’re adorable when you’re so angry you don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Cheer up, kitten. We’ll take you on a shopping spree, buy you something lacey. It’ll look even better on the floor.

Rebecca is the owner, editrix and publisher of Wonkette. She was in newspapers for a very long time. Follow her on the Twitter. She is currently on maternity leave (until 2033), so you didn't just read this post.

Joe Scarborough should make her go to the menstrual hut until she is done riding the cotton pony. Kathy "Me" Giffords can fill in for 4 days. There is no way that bitch is still cranking her own estrogen and still having periods.

Dashboard Buddha

Get thee to the red tent.

Barb

Fuck, I left an "s" after Kathy's Lee's last name and you replied too quickly for me to correct it. Oh well, sue me.

Not good, darlin'. It seems to be freezing up periodically, so I don't have a full range of motion, and it's also making alarming cracking noises. Pain pills are keeping the pain down, but I might need to get it looked at. There is NOTHING I hate worse than going to the doctor unless it's dying, so maybe I can put it off a while more.

Oh, poor wing. Don't try to flap it. You'll just go round in circles. I'll bring you a seed and honey stick from the pet store. I'm good. Just came back from the gym, which really helps with the overall grouchiness.

Haha, you must think a "co-host" is one of two "hosts." If she were a "host," she would have equal right and opportunity to bloviate, cut off anyone else on set, and ridicule any opinion she disdains. In show-business, a "co-star" or "co-host" is by definition a subordinate; nobody calls Joe the "co-host" of the show.

littlebigdaddy

Won't….watch.

Callyson

Fuck this, I give in…time to incorporate. It will be interesting to see what it's like to be treated like a person…

BarackMyWorld

She's the one that gets everyone's (corporate-sponsored) coffee, right?

mormos

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BAN COFFEE OVER 16OZ MAYOR BLOOMBERG!

prommie

Chicks, can't live with em, but you can still pay them less!

Callyson

I don't know why Howard Dean is surprised about Scott Brown. The man who uses a Senate victory speech to pimp out his daughters is unlikely to understand why fair pay might be important to the wommenz…

Harry Reid used to be a pretty good boxer. I doubt Mittens can make three rounds with him.

Callyson

Made it almost to the five minute mark before I could not stand watching four men and one woman talk about equal pay for women. FFS, MSNBC, are you trying to imitate FOX too? Ask CNN how well that worked for *their* ratings…

Millennial Malaise

Seriously, and she had to be there since she's the co-host. Chris Hayes is the only host with enough self-awareness to invite appropriate guests for things like this. During the height of the War on Women, he even put a few colored ladies on his panel.

Negropolis

I was actually surprised by the conversation, though. Anyone who watches Morning Joe usually knows that they play the false equivalency game on a near daily basis. That they were all pretty much in agreement that this was a Republican foul was kind of surprising. And, the guys were checked hubris, I thought, in discussing the politics of this, allowing Mika to speak on the policy.

Really, the menz are just looking out for us, money being the root of all evil, etc. We ought to be grateful that we're not overburdened with spending power.

WhatTheHeck

A real GOP man is: “A man for all seasons.”
A real GOP woman is: “A woman for all seasonings.”

pdiddycornchips

What's the difference between Mika and Bristol? A decade maybe? She's got a famous dad who did some things and like all children of famous people, she's waltzed into a fancy job most mortals would kill for. Please honey, don't talk to me about equal pay. If not for your dad, you'd be a second shift waitress at an IHOP in Jersey.

Generation[redacted]

Just goes to show, women in politics should stick to the important issues, like what to name their puppy.

anniegetyerfun

Mika once tried to light a story about Paris Hilton (one that she was supposed to read on air) on fire to protest the dumbing down of news. That alone is enough to make her more qualified than anyone who works for CNN.

Boojum

"Tried"? As in, "was too much of a failure to operate a lighter" or as in "was hogtied by the Fire Marshall and waterboarded"?

anniegetyerfun

AOTK

tessiee

Now I'm picturing her igniting the paperwork on camera, thereby setting off the sprinkler system and getting everyone and everything soaked with water.
This would actually improve most shows.

Wile E. Quixote

Yeah, but Mika would never, ever get a job at CNN because she has prettier hair than Anderson Cooper. He's got that in his contract you know.

SorosBot

So a woman benefits from having a famous dad by NBC making her the second banana on a morning chat show on basic cable; meanwhile they named a certain very young man with a famous father one of their top election correspondents on the actual broadcast network right after he graduated college, and have kept him on as one of their top congressional correspondents and now an anchor despite his being utterly incompetent at the job, unlike Mika; however, unlike her he has a penis.

…Russert is emblematic of the sort of nepotism that gives nepotism a bad name….He seems dimly aware that nepotism won him his job, but in denial as to the fact that it’s allowed him to keep it.

SorosBot

Heh; and my, what a clueless douchebag he is. Although he was right about one thing; he is a lot like Joe Buck, who is just as completely incompetent at the job he got because of his famous dad and as much of an annoying asshole. But sports announcing is just a little less important than political journalism.

I bet her career would go better if she'd take her husband's last name.

Negropolis

Ummm…a fucking brain? We make a lot of fun of Mika, but Bristol is not even in her solar system. So, let us not get stupid, now.

If I have any criticism of Mika, it's that she too often plays the "dumb blond" to make the Dumb Joe feel better about his intellectual inadequacies.

anniegetyerfun

Aw, poor Mika. I want to laugh/cry whenever I think about this, and fortunately, no one ever tries to film me. If they did, they'd be disturbed at my patented Ugly Cry.

Generation[redacted]

I hope she wasn't paid too much for her appearance.

SorosBot

These ladies are getting uppity, next thing you know they'll start thinking their opinions on birth control and abortion policy should have equal weight to those of wise old white men.

pdiddycornchips

She shouldn't be the face of the equal pay movement is all I'm saying. In the real world, most of us don't have a famous relative. I am sure Mika does just fine financially. Giving Mika a fat raise to equal Joe's paycheck does nothing for the average working woman.

chicken_thief

If Mika really wants a fat one, have her call me.

Goonemeritus

How can she be impartial after all she is widely reported to lack a penis?

The issue might have hit close to home for the MSNBC host, who experienced her own fight against pay disparity in 2008. She almost left "Morning Joe" after discovering that she was the lowest paid person on the show's panel. At that point, her co-host Joe Scarborough was making fourteen times as much as she was.

Oh, that's not even a fair comparison — they had to pay Joe a lot — otherwise he would kill again.

Besides, that pay disparity enabled Morning Joe to be "flexible", and "efficient", Mika certainly wouldn't want to be paid more at the expense of "flexibility" and "opportunties" that only arise from the "freedom" of being paid vastly less than her male co-panelists.

You'd think that this issue wouldn't shock her at all, then. She should be sitting there, drinking directly from a whiskey bottle, and slurring, "What the fuck does it matter, bitches? You think they pay ME well? They fucking DON'T."

And maybe I would feel sorry for Mika if she actually made an effort to have a voice on that show, to stand up for herself, or push for more female guests. In fact, I would actually respect her if she resigned.

MoeDeLawn

…and Chet cuts to the chase and nails it again. Thanks, Chet.

bagofmice

Dude, she has been commanding that show recently. All Joe does is provide the entitled white boy perspective, most likely while drunk. When Mika drives, it's watchable.

This word you use, "suffrage"; I don't think it means what you think it means.

marie2007

I think Mika was victim of salary inequality herself. She went to the execs over it.

She's on MSNBC every day with the panel of overbearing, extremely loud and incredibly obnoxious males, and sadly, she often allows Joe to humiliate her – she usually can't get a word in edgewise..
Joe gets whatever he wants – including sharing the political stage with Republicans – but others on the network must toe the line.

Look, studies show that children do better when they are raised in a household where the woman earns less. That's just basic science.

Wile E. Quixote

Jesus Mika, let it go already. Pop a fucking Midol™ and make Joe a sandwich.

Ryy

MSNBC got 99 problems…

owhatever

Damn women. It's all, "hand over your paycheck," even before I buy beer, then "the electric bill is overdue" when I got a poker game on Friday night, and "The plumber says another blowjob isn't enough to fix the broken toilet" when I got to cover a greens fee on Saturday. Let them go out and earn money. Just don't pay them as much.

Antispandex

Women. Why should they make more? It is the guys who do the hard work, and the ladies just stay home with the babies! Besides, where we going to get all of those "stripper bucks", if we don't make more than the strippers? You know, the ones who can't keep a man, and are out whoring it up to pay for their ill gotten babies? Doesn't it make more sense to go home to the guy who lightly abuses you…because he makes more money?

Watching this makes me reeeealy glad I don't have cable, and spend all my time watching pirated British TV.

ttommyunger

Frankly, I'm amazed daddy Z has let Joe live this long.

rocktonsam

I KNOW 3 women co- workers from the Wisconsin DNR that make the same as me.

ZERO, since we ain't got no jobs no moar

rickmaci

Mika. Babe. Chill. All I want is a comforting blond female voice as background chatter while I drink my first cup of coffee and scan the baseball scores. If I want to hear a woman nagging at full volume until my ears bleed, I'll wake up my wife.

Negropolis

I'm not surprised by this. She apparently wrote an entire book on this subject.

Dean made an awesome ppoint. Given that this isn't even going to come up in the House, this was kind of a gimme in the Senate.

lulzmonger

If you turn the audio all the way up, you can just barely hear Mika's jaw-clenched "fuck a bunch of this" during the weather report.